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Hello to all the loyal *Cinematical *readers. It’s me, Scott, the Managing Editor of this site. Part of my job is to keep throwing new ideas to the team, simply because I’m supposed to keep you at the site a little bit longer. Fortunately we have an excellent team of movie freaks who know how to write, which makes my job a whole lot easier. Every few weeks I come up with something like “Fan Rant,” “Scenes We Love,” “Credits Report,” etc., and then Erik Davis and I try to gauge A) how well the Cine team ‘takes’ to the feature, and B) how our readers feel about it.
So if you have a big problem with the “Movies I’ll Never See” concept, feel free to direct your anger away from writers like Dawn Taylor and point it towards me. Basically, I figured we ALL have a handful of films that we never plan to see. Could be politics, personal preference, a monumental distaste for a certain actor, or you name it. 98% of our readers are die-hard movie freaks and I guarantee they also have a short list of “nope, never” flicks. The intent of that feature was not to be closed-minded or ignorant regarding unseen films, but more like a “Fan Rant” on the strange reasons we might continually avoid a certain film. But since the reaction to Dawn’s Schindler’s List article was so overwhelmingly negative, I turn the question over to you: Is there no place for this sort of discussion? Do you really find it that distasteful? Or do you dig it? I can see both arguments, really, but I still kind of like the concept…
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